Action Party of Italy

The Action Party (PdA) was a liberal socialist political party in Italy that was active from 1942 to 1947. The party was founded as the political wing of the Giustizia e Liberta anti-fascist resistance movement, and the party advocated the overthrow of Benito Mussolini's fascist government and its replacement with a republic. Ferruccio Parri led the Action Party's Italian Resistance partisans during World War II and the Italian Civil War, and he became Prime Minister after the war's end. However, the party suffered electoral defeat in 1946, and the party was divided into Italian Socialist Party and Italian Republican Party factions.